PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 21: Melanie Thierry attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 21, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 21: Karlie Kloss attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 21, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 21: Freya Mavor attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 21, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 21: Natalia Vodianova attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 21, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 21: Bianca Jagger attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 21, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 21: Arizona Muse attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 21, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 21: Wang Likun attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 21, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 21: Felicity Jones attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 21, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 21: Monica Bellucci attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 21, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 21: Agathe Bonitzer attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 21, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 21: Kat Graham attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 21, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 21: Eva Herzigova attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 21, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 21: Araya Hargate attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 21, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 21: Charlotte Le Bon attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 21, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 21: Rachel Brosnahan attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 21, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 21: Amelia Windsor attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 21, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
“This collection consists of a superposition of images: a woman’s tattooed skin, reminiscent of the Victorian circus (and Ballet Parade from Rome to Naples in 1917) and its fairground phenomena, becomes a motif-drenched unitard that shapes the body and tells a wearable story under dresses. Powdery shades that come together and blend into an infinite palette. Skirts embroidered or inlaid with opaque sequins are shortened as tutus that nod to the circus codes of acrobats, tamers and riders. There are also leather corsets, sailor stripes, and black jackets inspired by that of the lion tamer. The geometric white clown outfit, whether spare or sumptuous, is reinterpreted through its materials, embroidery and proportions.”
The show was additionally animated with performances by the all-female circus company Mimbre, which, in a constant search for the poetic in the unexpected, highlights the trust and bond between the acrobats’ bodies. The circus is presented as a place of inclusion in which the clown, through its androgynous and asexual dimen- sion, becomes the expression of a possible equality and an evocation of modernity.
CHRISTIAN DIOR HAUTE COUTURE ss19.
fashion editor: brigitte segura.
photos:
Estelle Hanania for Dior;
people: Pascal Le Segretain | Getty for Dior
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